The U.S. Healthcare Industry is probably the least “computerized” of all major industries in this country – behind the taxicab industry, manufacturing plants, and even the waste disposal industry. This failure to adopt appropriate “automation” is considered by some experts to be the primary reason why health care costs have been rising well above the rate of inflation as quality of care is not improving. So the requirement now exists to change this situation, not from the federal government but from pure economic forces.

This webinar with Dr. Tom Love will describe some successes and challenges that were faced helping the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) enhance and reengineer their electronic medical records system, called VistA. Tom will also describe how a precursor of Agile methods was developed at VA in the 1980’s and was responsible for the success of VistA.

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